User talk:Givens.87

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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (October 1)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Givens.87/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Origamite^ⓣⓒ 11:56, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello! Givens.87, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Origamiteⓣⓒ 11:56, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Human brain evolution

Rather than adding your draft to the human evolution article you might consider adding to the Evolution of the brain article or the evolution section of the human brain article. A few other pointers

1. Bear in mind that Wikipedia articles are integrated into a whole. For article sections, this means the article itself - there's no need to explain or repeat things that a reader should have encountered higher up the page. They're also connected to other articles by wikilinks - if there's some term or concept that the average reader may not be familiar with, provide a link to the article where they can learn more.
2. Don't forget to break your text up into paragraphs and use inline citations to link to your references.

Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:33, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Evolution of the brain

Thanks for your additions to the Evolution of the brain article. I noticed that you did not add many wikilinks to other articles. Links like that are useful for readers, since they allow them to learn more about topics they may not be familiar with. It would be helpful if you could add links to terms like these. Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:43, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Your draft article, User:Givens.87/sandbox

Hello, Givens.87. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "sandbox".

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by one of two methods (don't do both): 1) follow the instructions at WP:REFUND/G13, or 2) copy this code: {{subst:Refund/G13|User:Givens.87/sandbox}}, paste it in the edit box at this link, and click "Save page". An administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 12:21, 13 April 2015 (UTC)